Dana White
speaker
1,304 appearances
17 recordings
16 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 17 Jun
Dana White’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hated the commentary. Certain things that I loved about boxing, I incorporated into the UFC. Things that I hated about boxing, I made sure that the UFC stayed far away from. I think I can't stand Larry Merchant. Can't stand Larry Merchant. And I used to watch HBO Boxing and mute the commentary so that I didn't have to listen to them. Lampley, too.
You know, you would spend this money for the pay-per-view to watch these people that you idolized to hear these idiots rip them apart while the fight was happening.
Yeah, 100%.
I want to do this with you right now. Hey, will you bring your cell phone over here and pull up YouTube? I want to do this for you so that you can understand this and understand where I was coming from. For the commentary. Yeah, at this point in time. I have all good memories. You're going to ruin it for me. Yeah, no, there are nothing but great memories about boxing.
But the presentation and a lot of things. But how fucking weird is it that I even cared about this shit at that point in my life and that time in my life? Like, what impact could I possibly have on it? So think about Tyson and how much everybody loved Tyson at the time. And listen to this. Listen to this entrance.
One of the baddest motherfucking walk-ins of all time, by the way. Right? So what this guy should be doing. And this is one of the Albert brothers. Yeah. Shut the fuck up. Yeah. Stay out of the way.
Or that. Or don't say anything. Just let the fans... That's why we paid our money. You don't need to say anything.
I don't remember that. You're right. Imagine You're right. You paid your money to watch Mike Tyson, and you got to listen to these fucking jerk-offs talk shit about him the whole way to the... First of all, one of the coolest walk-ins ever. First time anybody had heard DMX, right? That's right. He's walking into some scary, imposing music. Will it even matter? It's just all that kind of stuff.
I literally used to analyze every... ounce of the production that would happen on television. And at a time when I didn't even know why I was doing it, but... But it's in there somewhere. Like you were thinking about it. Right? So yeah, I hated HBO commentary. I thought, you know, at the time...
HBO boxing was obviously the gold standard for, you know, but when you really think about boxing at that time, their production, the only thing that changed over 30 years was like HD. I mean, even the commentators were the same for 30 years. And then you had the time when Larry Merchant gets up and literally starts fighting with Floyd Mayweather during the interview.
and says, if I was 30 years younger, I'd kick your ass right now. Oh yeah, I remember that. I mean, these are the interviews that we have to listen to when we're trying to watch a boxing match. The level of boxing was good. Think about a fighter, right? Fighter has been gone for months, away from their families and away from everything, training, cutting weight, sparring.
Then they go in and they have to fight that night. And then you have to, you know, if you watch your fight back, you got to listen to this bullshit. from these guys, and then you get interviewed, and your interview is this.
So you know who goes in there and interviews fighters? Joe Rogan, right? Who has trained and done everything and has the utmost respect for the sport and the athletes. Or... you got like Daniel Cormier who was a former world champion himself and has actually been through it, done it, knows. And those are the type of people that we put in the booth, people that are actually experienced in it.
Not, not, not these people who've never been in a fight in their fucking life, right?
They really love it. Well, everybody does. I mean, if you look at, it's the difference between our commentary and what I feel their commentary was. We don't hire paid talking heads. We hire people that have actually been in it, done it, love it, and are super passionate about the sport. And I would say that none of them that ever covered the sport back then were.
I don't know if that was Marv Albert or what Albert brother that was, but he sounded like he's a fan of the sport. Anyway, you got me on this, and once I get on this, I lose my mind.
It would be different. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. It would be different. There's no doubt about it. All those experiences growing up, being a boxing fan, helped create what the UFC is today.
I agree with you 100%. The first UFC happened in 1993, right? Martial art versus martial art. Yeah. And now over the last 30 years, martial arts has evolved faster than, you know what I mean? And like you just said, combat sports, fighting, whatever you want to call it, martial arts, it has evolved so much in 30 years, more than the last, 300 years.
What did you think when you saw UFC one with Hoyce? I remember everybody talking that this fight was going to happen and there was going to be no rules and all this other stuff. And we're like, there's no way that's bullshit. And then we ended up at some guy's house that night in Boston and watching it and it was happening and it was fun and it was exciting and everything else.
And then, uh, and then I sort of fell off after that. The first one I, I watched, but I was too big of a boxing fan. Plus once grappling started taking over and, you know, by grappling, meaning the wrestling and the, and the jujitsu guys had just laid there, you know, I completely lost interest.
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